Jon Peters  where is he now?

'I did affirm to my readers ... that I was the happiest man I had ever met and I can profoundly reaffirm it at the age of 91," said the great Arthur Rubinstein.

Hmmm, I am not quite as happy as Mr. Rubinstein but getting close.

Who was that unkempt, bearded guy who dropped into the legendary Wolfgang's on Rodeo Drive, sitting with an Asian playmate? Well, I haven't heard or read anything about this unusual "celebrity" lately. But he was once the co-head of Sony Pictures, until his partner Peter Guber fired him. He became famous as a hairdresser in his family's Rodeo Drive salon and met Barbra Streisand while doing her hair for the movie "For Pete's Sake." After that he romanced his way to the top as her lover and co-producer of her remake of "A Star is Born." He remained a controversial prominent Hollywood producer for 30 years. I do mean Jon Peters. (Jon's prowess was such that the famously controlling Barbra appeared to have put herself entirely in his hands, personally and professionally. Hollywood was agog. The biggest star in the world jumping through hoops for her sexy hairdresser!)

Jon was powerful, along with Guber, for a number of years, noted for his fearsome behavior. If you would care to read some La La Land history, look up the 1976 New West magazine piece, "My Battles with Barbra and Jon," by the furious "A Star ..." director Frank Pierson, or read the 1996 book by Kim Masters and Nancy Griffin titled "Hit & Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Guber Took Sony for a Ride in Hollywood."

(You can call up Dana Kennedy's amazing review of this revealing book, which appeared in Entertainment Weekly.)

Anyway, having been hardly heard from since buying and co-founding the "Superman" franchise, Peters had Wolfgang's agog with his unusual appearance. "We didn't know where he had gone or what he was doing ... too bad he doesn't seem to like being himself now ... he sure doesn't dress up anymore or see a barber occasionally ..." went the remarks.

Peters was once such a ladies' man that he was often said to have inspired the randy character played so brilliantly by Warren Beatty in the hit movie "Shampoo." But Warren made the character "lovable," and that wasn't too much like Jon Peters.